Here's my situation. I'm in an apartment with no wired internet available at my printer. I've had some issues connecting to it via USB, so I'd like to use the Ethernet feature for a more robust connection. My desktop is connected to the building's wireless and sits next to my printer. It obviously has an open Ethernet port.

Is there any way I can directly connect to my Smoothieboard? Tools I have at my disposal are an old and unused but working router, a plethora of Ethernet cables, a crossover cable, and willpower.

I was able to get this answered in the IRC. It came down to some network settings. I now have my Smoothieboard connected directly to my desktop via Ethernet. I have fixed the IP addresses of both my desktop's Ethernet adapter and my smoothie. Pretty simple but I know nothing about networking so it was a challenge for me.

Hello, sorry for the bump in the thread but i am trying to accomplish this but there is no easy to follow instructions that i could find, google brought me here. Could you please explain what you did to achieve this?

This site is a WIki, which means you are very welcome to help us improve it. Help on how to do that can be found at the Editing the Wiki page . You can edit any page by clicking the "Edit" button bellow :